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Special F/X
Former F/X owner Fil Maresca reconvenes the counterculture

Music Picks
Andre Nickatina, Hot for Teacher and Vicente Fernandez

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Movie Review: 'Australia'
Hugh and Nicole travel the outback in Baz Luhrmann's epic

Movie Review: 'Slumdog Millionaire'
A Mumbai street kid knows all the answers in Danny Boyle's new feature

Movie Review: 'Beauty in Trouble'
A woman tries to move home in Czech drama

DVD Review: 'Bill Douglas Trilogy'
A new collection highlights Scottish director's short, honest films about growing up hard

DVD Review: 'Chaplin'
An anniversary edition of Robert Downey, Jr.'s biopic includes making-of extras and Chaplin home movies

DVD Review: 'Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage'
So heart-warming your aortas will boil over

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The Arts

Art Review: 'Durer to Picasso' at Stanford
Stanford shows off its best new art finds

Stage Review: 'Every Christmas Story Ever Told'
San Jose Stage Company puts the hilarity back in the holidays

Stage Review: 'Rapunzel'
City Lights plays fast and funny with familiar fairy tale

Restaurants

Talking Turkey
Bodrum Cafe blends East and West

Live Feed
E Pluribus Yum

The Wine Column
Gold on Summit Road

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Morning in Obamaland
Silicon Valley Obama 'movement' takes a new direction—local races and issues

The Fly
Silicon Valley News Notes

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November 26 - December 2, 2008